Today's Connections Hints & Answers For May 5, 2024 (Puzzle #328)

Happy Saturday, and happy new day. Another collection of words for fans to group together in random ways. Today's categories aren't too hard to get through, but we definitely had a few of the misdirections fool us.

One of the most overlooked aspects of is the provided Shuffle button. It's an important tool to utilize when you feel stuck. Oftentimes our brains will refuse to let go of an idea, even if it's wrong. The Shuffle button is a great way to scramble the game up a bit and maybe help you see things from a different perspective.

Before we just go and spoil today's answers we wanted to provide you with the daily categories. This way if you might be close to solving it yourself this could put you over the top.

SOMETHING GAINED FROM HARD WORK

KINDS OF BAGELS

CONTRIBUTE TO A MOVIE

STARTS OF MONSTERS

SOMETHING GAINED FROM HARD WORK

BENEFIT

FRUIT

REWARD

RETURN

Yellow was our first score for the day and it came quite quickly. REWARD and BENEFIT were the two starting words and everything else cascaded from there. FRUIT and PRODUCE tried to give us a little misdirection, but we saw through that real fast.

KINDS OF BAGELS

EGG

EVERYTHING

PLAIN

POPPY

I am originally from New York, and growing up we always had a fresh bag of bagels ready in the morning. EGG bagel is the absolute best bagel to ever be invented and it's not even close. POPPY and EVERYTHING actually gave away this category to us and it was easy to find the other two and score the win.

CONTRIBUTE TO A MOVIE

ACT

DIRECT

PRODUCE

WRITE

With only eight words left, the blue category really stuck out. We instantly saw all four words when compared to the selection from the purple category. Today's answers came almost too easy.

STARTS OF MONSTERS

FRANK

MUM

VAMP

WERE

There was one moment where we thought FRANK, PLAIN, and DIRECT were a connection, but after we couldn't find that fourth word we gave up and moved on. We did not, however, guess this actual category. Being the leftover words for